<TITLE>23. Par 91-94</TITLE>L-91 I said, "God, I've done wrong, but someday, if You forgive me, I'll make it all right to You." I said, "You gave her to me; You're taking her away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord." I said, "I love You, Lord, with all my heart." I felt her little flesh quiver. She was gone.
I couldn't hold myself together. My bones wouldn't hold together, looked like. I was dying. I taken her, put her in her mother's arms, take her up there on the hill, dug a hole. I was standing there, and Brother Smith, the Methodist church, my buddy, preached the funeral. I heard him reach over and get those clods and say, "Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust, earth to earth."
Just then, whispering down through those pine trees, come a wind, seemed like it was singing:
There's a land beyond the river,
That they call the sweet forever,
We only reach that shore by faith decree;
One by one we gain the portal,
There to dwell with the immortals,
Someday, they'll ring those golden bells for you and me.

L-92 Here real recently, my boy, he was just a little bitty fellow, we was taking a flower over to his mother's grave. He had his hat in his hand, and a little flower, holding it on Easter morning. He started snubbing, and crying (Billy Paul, the one that helps me here in the service.); I put my arm around him. Walked up, and he put the little flower down just as it was breaking day. I said, "Now, stand up, honey." I said, "Mother and sister, their body lays there, but way across the sea yonder now there's an empty tomb. Some glorious day by His death and resurrection this one will be empty, and we'll be with them again. So don't worry, honey."
I couldn't stand it. I tried to work. I tried to... I could see my wife going, but my baby? I just couldn't get over it.

L-93 I remember one evening started to come from work. I picked up the mail on the side of the house, and I looked. It said, "Miss Sharon Rose Branham," her little Christmas saving: eighty cents. I went in, I was trying to batch in our little old two rooms there, and one of them, I never had no fire in the other side. Frost come up through the floor, and I knelt down there by my little old stove, and my cot, and I was praying. I said, "O God, I'm... Why did You take her?"
And while laying there praying, sobbing away in the night, I must've fell asleep. And I dreamed that I--I seen, going walking along... I've spent a lot of time, about twenty years, in cattle, in the West. I was going walking on. I had on my hat, big hat, and I was kicking my spurs along, just going on along like that, whistling that song, "The wheel on the wagon's broken. A sign on the ranch 'For Sale.'"
And I looked, and there was an old prairie schooner there, and the wheel was broke down. And I looked, and there stood a beautiful, young girl, standing there. She said, "Hello, daddy."
And I said, "Who are you?"

L-94 And she said, "I'm your little Sharon." She said, "Mother's waiting for you." I said... "Up at your new home."
I said, "New home?" I said, "We ain't never had a new home, honey."
She said, "You got one up here, daddy."
And I started up, and I hear them singing that song, "I see the lights of the city so bright." And I got up, and there she was standing there, looking at me. She put her arms around me, and greeted me, as she always did. She said, "Won't you set down?"


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